Jared, I would recommend not playing the robots (consistently) if you want a good "gateway" deck. I would recommend playing Merfolk (which is mono-colored and also not that expensive, while being a real metagame deck). Here is a sample list:

The deck is relatively cheap by Legacy standards (because of the high number of basics) and should be reasonably simple to put together. I have a set of Forces I'm not using, so you can use them for now, leaving only Wasteland as a $ card (I assume you have vials).

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Sideboard varies on what you expect. Merfolk naturally has fairly good matchups against decks with islands and combo and is weak to decks like Aggro-loam, Zoo, and Dredge, but if you don't see any of those decks, it's perfectly fine not to sideboard for them. A sample sideboard is as follows:

The Legacy metagame is far too diverse for me to summarize in one post. Suffice to say that if you go to a large Legacy tournament I would not expect any given deck to exceed 10% of the field, although it is possible for that to happen. Stephen Menendian wrote an article recently called "the 50 decks of Legacy" which is a reasonable summary of T1 and T2 archetypes you may face.

fair enough. also chingsung, you arent going to outpost me if we keep getting into this debates/conversations through the forum. you need to pick fights with other people. haha i will get to 100 before you!